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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Spanish thrash metal and hardcore band from Cantabria, formed in 2019. They fuse thrash metal's aggression with hardcore's confrontational spirit from northern Spain's coastal region.
Czech thrash metal trio from Prague, active since 2002 and self-described as being named after a favored closure on a camping gas cylinder. Their discography includes releases like Kult Kurev and Sirota, delivering raw, uncompromising thrash in the vein of Sodom.
Power/thrash metal band from Belfast, active since 2012. Their releases including This Means War, Death of a Hero, and the Worldwide Genocide EP deliver hard-hitting Irish thrash with power metal ambition.
Swedish crossover thrash act active since 2020, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
Lisbon-based crossover thrash act active since 2015, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
Thrash metal outfit from Dundalk, formed in 2019. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Czech metal trio from Brno formed in 2021, featuring bass/vocals, guitar, and drums. They released the Hunt for the Cure EP in 2022 followed by their debut full-length Slave to the Machine in 2023, blending heavy and thrash metal influences.
Thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, formed around 2021 and active in the city's heavy underground.
Swedish thrash metal act active since 2024, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Swedish filter.
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